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What will enter the public domain in 2026?
- badmonster 11mo agoInteresting that copyright terms vary so much globally. Are there any notable works from non-Western countries entering public domain in 2026?
- Arainach 11mo agoTo avoid the advent calendar, this may be more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
- venturecruelty 11mo agoNeat! I just discovered that Carolyn Keene's first Nancy Drew story, "The Secret of the Old Clock", will be in the public domain next year. I remember reading this in elementary school when I was on a big mystery kick for a while (I had some of the computer games, too). I had no idea it was that old.
- Fordec 11mo agoWhat really sends home just how ridiculously long it takes public domain to kick in to me is that Mein Kampf is on that list. It feels like something that even in 1996 would have been a bit eye-raisingly overdue.
- chistev 11mo agoWhat does it mean to be in public domain
- fsckboy 11mo agothat the Hitler estate can't sue you for copyright infringement if you publish it yourself and distribute copies.
- chistev 11mo agoInteresting that he still has an estate. And thanks for explaining what it means
- gbear605 11mo agoIn practice, there was not a Hitler estate - the government of Bavaria (a state in Germany) took ownership of the copyright.
- fsckboy 11mo agoHitler did have a nephew by blood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston and I guess a few others, but dwindling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_family https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives-are-living-secret-lives-on-long-island/ https://nypost.com/2018/10/08/some-of-hitlers-last-relatives...
- j2kun 11mo ago...did they exercise it?
- gbear605 11mo agoRather the opposite, they disallowed anyone from printing copies
- realityking 11mo agoEstate is a common law concept. There’s no direct equivalent in German law.
- teraflop 11mo agoThat question is answered by the first sentence on the page that this thread is discussing: > At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.
- estsauver 11mo agoThat is only for Spain, which has copyright of Death of Author + 80.
- rzz3 11mo agoThen why is he listed in that table? I don’t get it.
- GolDDranks 11mo agoBecause that table is "Entering the public domain in countries with life + 80 years".
- mikae1 11mo agoAre you mistaking William Faulkner's mustache for Hitler's?
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- culi 11mo agoIt's absolutely ridiculous and has almost everything to do with Disney trying to maintain their hold on Mickey Mouse. Every single time his expiration came up they managed to lobby for an extension and now we're left with this current mess of a system
- actionfromafar 11mo agoWow, I didn't know the connections between Mickey Mouse and Mein Kampf ran that deep. ;-)
- Oarch 11mo agoI was like you once... takes long drag from cigarette
- aaronbrethorst 11mo agoI see that How to Win Friends and Influence People is on there. I'm looking forward to the inevitable And Zombies adaptation coming in 2027.
- al_borland 11mo agoSo is the Diary of Anne Frank, that will surely get some sort of zombie remix in poor taste, I’m sure.
- b3lvedere 11mo agoOne could even combine How to Win Friends and Influence People, the Diary of Anne Frank, the works of Einstein and Adolf Hitler into a some strange gory anime and others could do nothing about that. The possibilities are endless.
- lukan 11mo ago"and others could do nothing about that. The possibilities are endless." Well, I wouldn't be so sure about it. Just because other people have no more copyright legal angle, there are still other legal and plenty of non legal ways to bother you, if you manage to piss enough people off.
- b3lvedere 11mo agoWell yeah, but that's just being part of this universe and applicable to anything. If one were to write fanfic with all those things combined, legally there are no repercussions, but people have indeed been tried and burned for less. Imagine all the weird generative AI now these works all go public. Don't have to like it, but just imagine. So much crap will be produced in 2026.
- weberer 11mo agoThere's already the new musical, Slam Frank, which gives the story of Ann Frank the Hamilton treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Frank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Frank
- nottorp 11mo agoPretty sad that even a well intentioned non profit thinks it has to resort to "engagement" shenanigans.
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- nottorp 11mo agoThey need money to recover the money they spent on “engagement” “experts”? You get predatory tactics in part because you accept them as normal.
- AnimalMuppet 11mo agoDo they? Do they really think I'm going to come back each day to see what the new reveal is, and on the 17th day I'm going to decide "Oh, hey, maybe I should send them some money"? No. No, I'm not. I'm gone and I'm not coming back. Ain't nobody got time for games like this.
- jama211 11mo agoI would’ve loved to see some notable highlights in this article!
- Night_Thastus 11mo agoSomething about this page doesn't seem to work for me. Clicking the tiles doesn't do anything. It's not ad-blocker-related, I disabled those to test.
- Jtsummers 11mo agoIt's in the style of an advent calendar, the other days will be available later on in the month.
- Seattle3503 11mo agoThe entire page is underwhelming. For someone in the US, I walked away with basically no new information other than some stuff will enter public domain at new years.
- a96 11mo agoThe comments here seem to link many better lists (in case they didn't before).
- MyOutfitIsVague 11mo ago> In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what lies in store for 2026. Each day, as we move through December, we’ll open a new window to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveiled — look out for a special blogpost from us on that day. (And, of course, if you want to dive straight in and explore the vast swathe of new entrants for yourself, just visit the links above).
- driverdan 11mo agoIt's tracker blocking. If you're using pihole or some other DNS-based blocking it won't work. Even if it did work it's a bad UX. Just give us a list we can easily read.
- kayge 11mo agoIf you want to skip to December 31st, you can enter the following into your browser console to make all the tiles/doors openable: const elements = document.querySelectorAll(".countdown-calendar__door"); elements.forEach(element => { element.classList.add("will-open"); });
- acabal 11mo agoFor a literature-focused list of items entering the US public domain on 2026, Standard Ebooks has 20 ebooks prepared for release on January 1: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026 https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
- fsckboy 11mo agoI don't think that they are allowed to prepare copyrighted items for release in advance of them being in the public domain.
- kec 11mo agoWhy would that be the case? Copyright (at least in the US) only restricts distribution, performance and derivation.
- fsckboy 11mo agono, it restricts copying, making copies
- kec 11mo ago“Copying” here refers to distribution and derivation, at least in the US. It is entirely legal to create copies of media for personal usage for instance (so long as you aren’t circumventing DRM, thanks DMCA).
- whamlastxmas 11mo agoThis isn't correct. It is infringement, for example, to write Harry Potter fan fiction in private on a typewriter, even if another soul never sees it. Copyright includes creation, not just distribution
- panja 11mo agoBetter let AO3 in on that
- hristov 11mo agoThe maltese falcon (the book, not the movie) is entering the public domain next year!
- hristov 11mo agoAlso of interest is vile bodies, which is a very good but characteristically depressing book by evelyn waugh.
- JetSetIlly 11mo agoThe Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff is one of my favourites on that list.
- wahnfrieden 11mo agoNothing in Japan from what I could find here or elsewhere… don’t understand why edit: thanks to the dead commenter for clarifying. that sucks.
- shuoga 11mo agoThe "TPP11," which includes a provision to extend the term of protection to 70 years, will enter into force on December 30, 2018. In Japan, the term of copyright protection will, in principle, be 70 years after the death of the author (or 70 years after publication for works published anonymously, under a pseudonym, or in the name of a corporate body). Copyrights that have already expired at the time of enforcement will not be revived (principle of non-retroactivity of protection). Consequently, no works will newly enter the public domain for the next 20 years. From Japan Library Association: https://www.jla.or.jp/hogokikan-encho/#:~:text=%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E6%9C%9F%E9%96%93%E3%82%9270%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%AB%E5%BB%B6%E9%95%B7%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E8%A6%8F%E5%AE%9A%E3%82%92%E5%90%AB%E3%82%80%E3%80%8CTPP11%E3%80%8D%E3%81%8C%EF%BC%8C2018%E5%B9%B412%E6%9C%8830%E6%97%A5%E3%82%92%E3%82%82%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A6%E7%99%BA%E5%8A%B9%E3%81%95%E3%82%8C%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82%20%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%A7%E3%81%AE%E8%91%97%E4%BD%9C%E6%A8%A9%E3%81%AE%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E6%9C%9F%E9%96%93%E3%81%AF%EF%BC%8C%E5%8E%9F%E5%89%87%E3%81%A8%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E8%91%97%E4%BD%9C%E8%80%85%E3%81%AE%E6%AD%BB%E5%BE%8C70%E5%B9%B4%EF%BC%88%E7%84%A1%E5%90%8D%E3%83%BB%E5%A4%89%E5%90%8D%E3%83%BB%E5%9B%A3%E4%BD%93%E5%90%8D%E7%BE%A9%E3%81%AE%E5%A0%B4%E5%90%88%E3%81%AF%EF%BC%8C%E5%85%AC%E8%A1%A8%E5%BE%8C70%E5%B9%B4%EF%BC%89%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82%20%E6%96%BD%E8%A1%8C%E6%97%A5%E3%81%AE%E6%99%82%E7%82%B9%E3%81%A7%E6%B6%88%E6%BB%85%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B%E8%91%97%E4%BD%9C%E6%A8%A9%E3%81%AF%EF%BC%8C%E5%BE%A9%E6%B4%BB%E3%81%97%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9B%E3%82%93%EF%BC%88%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%8D%E9%81%A1%E5%8F%8A%EF%BC%89%E3%80%82%20%E4%BB%8A%E5%BE%8C20%E5%B9%B4%E9%96%93%E3%81%AB%E3%82%8F%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8A%EF%BC%8C%E6%96%B0%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AB%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E6%9C%9F%E9%96%93%E3%81%8C%E6%BA%80%E4%BA%86%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E4%BD%9C%E5%93%81%E3%81%8C%E7%94%9F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8C%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82%20%E5%85%B7%E4%BD%93%E7%9A%84%E3%81%AB%E3%81%AF%EF%BC%8C%E4%BB%A5%E4%B8%8B%E3%81%AE%E3%82%88%E3%81%86%E3%81%AA%E6%89%B1%E3%81%84%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AA%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%99%E3%80%82 https://www.jla.or.jp/hogokikan-encho/#:~:text=%E4%BF%9D%E8%...
- jonah-archive 11mo agoWe'll be celebrating this at the Internet Archive! As a lead-up, we're again hosting our Public Domain Film Remix Contest: https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-remix-contest/ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2026-public-domain-day-r... We'll be having an in-person celebration at our SF HQ later in January as well, details to come!
- ricksunny 11mo agoDoes the Internet Archive provide any instruction to uploaders and users about how to go about uploading and downloading copyright-expired public domain works legally, given the geographical differences from region to region on copyright expiration? For example, does the Internet Archive host its servers in USA, and would that make the US copyright expiry law operative? Or does it have servers in Europe or Asia (more lenient copyright expiration laws) that can be intentionally uploaded to, and leaving it to users to download from their respective regional locations on their own cognizances (i.e. at their own risk)?
- telesilla 11mo agoFinally! We'll get the Hollywood cinematic version of How to Win Friends and Influence People..
- Smoosh 10mo agoOh, no! Hollywood will get richer and the poor author will get nothing!
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- shevy-java 11mo ago> works by people who died in 1955 70 years. After death. The rules have to change. 70 years is way too long.
- tombert 11mo agoI was actually extremely surprised that Disney didn't bribe congress and stop Mickey Mouse from ending up in the public domain.
- _trampeltier 11mo agoThey did. Before it was 50 years and get extended several times just before Mickey would enter public domain.
- culi 11mo agoYeah they've done a lobbying campaign about a dozen times when Mickey was set to enter public domain. I think GP was saying they're surprised they didn't do a 13th time. Like why give up now?
- prmoustache 11mo agoBecause in reality it hasn't entered public domain completely, only the very first movies and the way it was drawn in the 1930's. They are still protecting the one most people all know better.
- VBprogrammer 11mo agoThe funny thing is that Mickey Mouse barely registers for kids these days. We went to Disney World this year and Mickey had a bit part in some of the shows. Elsa, Moana and the other modern characters were the real stars.
- prmoustache 11mo ago
- inasio 11mo agoA lot of WW2 heavyhitters from all sides: Hitler, Mussolini, Patton, Churchill, Goebels. Even Anne Frank and Einstein.
- boznz 11mo agoWeird Question, but who would even collect the royalties from Hitler or Goebels?
- Rebelgecko 11mo agoFor Hitler, the rights to the original text of Mein Kampf (and probably many of his other writings) went to Bavaria after he died. However various translations and abridgements were made with their own copyright. Houghton Mifflin owns the rights to the US version of Mein Kampf, which was published in the 30s with a lot of the Hitler-iest parts removed (the rights are separate from the British version even though the text is identical). During WW2 and even up until the 1970s, the US government confiscated the royalties that were owed to Hitler. Houghton Mifflin was eventually able to purchase the full rights. After an article in 2000 about how profitable it was, they started donating the profits to Holocaust-related charities. A few years ago they decided to go back to pocketing the money.
- metalliqaz 11mo ago> A few years ago they decided to go back to pocketing the money. The American way *salutes*
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- pettertb 11mo agoCopyright has no business holding as long as it does.
- bcrosby95 11mo agoThe length of copyright is absurd. Corporations have hijacked a concept that should exist on human timescales. Ideally, a child could legally provide their own spin on IP they consumed by the time they reach adulthood. But also, people need to make a living. I actually think the original 14+14 year copyright is the right balance. It gives people time to make their profits, but also guarantees the right of people to tweak and modify content they consume within their lifetime. It's a balanced time scale rather than one that exists solely to serve mega corporations giving them the capability to hold cultural icons hostage.
- mchusma 11mo agoI love the original 14+14. I’ve heard proposals for exponentially growing fees to allow truly big enterprises to stay copywritten longer, like 14+14 with filing and $100, another 14 for $100,000, another 14 for $10M, another 14 for $100M. That would allow 70 years or protection for a few key pieces of IP that are worth it, which seems like an okay trade off? So many ideas better than the current regime.
- testdelacc1 11mo agoI like this system but it will make the rich richer. Disney will never have a problem paying the $100k or even $10M from something that is generating revenue. But the heirs of a mildly successful author won’t be able to, leaving those works to be harvested for free by Disney et al. The current system, for all its faults, gives rich and poor the same benefits. Keeping The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (published 1954) would have forced the Tolkien estate to pay $100k in 1982 on minimal revenues. Then $10M in 1996 in the hope that they would recoup it in a future film licensing agreement. Except no one would pay $10M+ to license it when they could just wait until 2010 to pay $0 and make it without any conditions being stipulated by the Tolkien estate. So the Tolkien Estate would have let copyright lapse in 1996 and the eventual adaption would have grossed $900 million, of which they’d have seen $0. Followed by 2 more adaptations that grossed $1 billion each. Edit: downvote if you want, but nothing I’ve said is inaccurate or incorrect.
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- ta12653421 11mo agoin my old neighbourhood, there was a couple where the husband creatd the intro-jingle for one of the major local news shows. they are playing his jingle for more than 20 years now. he became so wealhty that he could afford to tear down his old house, move temporaly to a hotel with the whole family, while the new villa was built on the old ground.
- dbspin 11mo agoThis always blows my mind about the US - the fact that individual cities and states are large enough markets people can become enormously wealthy catering to their locality. A staggering difference from Europe.
- ta12653421 11mo ago...I'm in the EU - its not an US specific feature
- paweladamczuk 11mo agoThis article and the articles linked in it only provide a selection of works entering public domain in 2026. Does anyone know of a database or list of works so that I can see all of them? Other than the Wikipedia article that only has a list of names.
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- zoobab 11mo agoNo software in the list, duration of copyright for software is not adapted to the specifics of the field, no hardware would exist anymore to make this kind of software useful. Pure waste.
- yason 11mo agoAs others have noted copyright duration is ridiculous. But more importantly it lacks severe counter-forces to balance out the explicit monopoly. Since the point of copyright is to offer an incentive (to profit) from works it should be tightly tied to the market value of said works and the willingness of its owner to present them for sale. If nobody keeps selling X there's no reason to let X enjoy the protection of copyright. If X is kept for sale for the sake of keeping copyright alive but it's not really selling much that should also affect the nature of the copyright. For example, a minimum fee you have to pay annually to keep copyright going would cull out the works that are no longer commercially viable. The fee could be proportional to the overall sales of the works so that if your works were a huge hit in the 80's but sales have trickled down to a minimum you'd have to pay more (from the profits you've obviously received over time) to keep it copyrighted (which would force you to balance your copyrights to your net income from current sales), but if you published an obscure album decades ago that never got much traction your fees would be negligible (but you'd still have a minimum fee you'd have to pay regardless) so you would be incentivized to give up the "protection" and make it cheaper for everyone to let it fall in public domain. Further, the various aspects of copyright could be torn down in different timeframes. Let's say you wrote a successful book in 1963 which made money but no longer sells much. You probably wouldn't mind letting the copies of the book fall in public domain but if you could keep the option to hold onto copyright for derivative works in case someone wants to make a film out of the book you could do that (again, with annual fees, but these could be lower if the original book could be freely copied). Or some other scheme. I could soon think of dozens if I wanted to but you get the idea. How about a tax on the sales of copyrighted works that starts from 0% but increases by some percentage point each year. You can profit first but as years go by you will have to start paying more and more to keep it going as the overall balance approaches unprofitability. Copyright doesn't have to be a complete monopoly, it could have shades of gray. Sure there are exemptions already (such as fair use, in some countries, or right to make backups under certain conditions) but none of them address the commercial stronghold copyright allows for companies to keep works of art hostage for decades and eventually, for centuries.
- LtWorf 11mo agoYeah i think books that are out of print since decades should become public domain.
- jakubmazanec 11mo agoSwallows and Amazons is on the list? My favorite book; when I was a kid I read Czech translation published in 1930s, so I shouldn't be that surprised it's entering public domain.
- RyanOD 11mo agoRead this to my daughters. What a great story! Wish I had known of it as a kid.
- nephihaha 11mo agoInteresting case in point is Argentina. The Falklands War happened in 1982, so well within some people's lifetimes. I learnt a few years ago that photographs and writings from Argentina from 1982 are already out of copyright. Photographs from the UK are not, and won't be until seventy years after the deaths of the people who took them. So total contrast between the two jurisdictions and reflected in publications about the conflict. In the former Soviet Union, pre-1973 material is out of copyright. Again within living memory. I don't know what Russia etc have done with copyright since then.
- igsomething 11mo agoKeep in mind in Argentina public domain works are not free (free as beer) of use, you have to pay a fee to the government, for example if you play Beethoven music in your short film or any work you created. This is likely going to change since the organism responsible for collecting the fees is undergoing a big restructuring.
- NoahZuniga 11mo agoThis article seems to imply that when works enter into the public domain depend on where they were published. This is not true! It's based on where you are and when it was published.I E, if you're in the USA and some work published in a death+50 year country is in the public domain in said country, it would still be illegal to distribute in the US. Similarly, some works that are published in the US but are not in the public domain there could be perfectly legal to publish in a death+50 year country.
- graemep 11mo agoI just noticed the site contains a very misleading description of what a Community Interest Company is. They are not necessarily not for profits (a certain proportion of profits has to be used for the stated purpose) and they are not as tightly regulated as charities (they do not get the tax breaks charities do either) . That is not to say this particular company is a bad thing (I have not problem with people getting reasonable remuneration) but if you want to know (e.g. if you are considering donating) its something you need to find out on a case by case basis. This is not well known in the UK, let along outside the UK.
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- throw10920 11mo agoI would love to see a public poll on how long people think that copyright should be. I'm betting that the majority of the answers from normal people will be less than the current "author's lifetime plus 70 years" but also greater than 5 years. This is probably not a very profitable poll for Gallup to do, though...
- skirge 11mo ago"What I need should be copyrighted zero years and what I sell should be copyrighter indefinitely", this is an answer you will get.
- nemomarx 11mo agoWasn't it 14+14 at some point? I wonder if that would be above or below the average response
- nancyminusone 11mo agoMy answer is "a generation". There's so many ideas and behaviors that don't persist between generations that it seems as natural of a division as you could have. The median age of new mothers is 27 around here, which seems about right.
- ronsor 11mo agoA generation is usually considered to be ~20 years, which is less than 14+14, not that I'm complaining.
- eudamoniac 11mo agoI genuinely don't understand the instinct of HN to decry copyright for fictional works in general. I would not find it distasteful for even a far longer copyright to exist. I just don't see it as a problem. What is the societal ill that is caused by being unable to sell Harry Potter fan fiction, ever? Why can the author not invent his own setting? I understand people want free things, but this sentiment seems to go beyond that. The work is still available to be bought and sold, and if the price isn't right, there are billions of other options. I don't get it. I don't feel personally entitled to make derivations of Moby Dick, so if I found out it had exited public domain somehow, that would not upset me at all.
- zelphirkalt 11mo agoThe issue is with limiting creativity in all kinds of works and areas. It would be great, if we could organize society in a way, that makes artificial limits and boundaries to information sharing unnecessary.
- eudamoniac 11mo agoThat is tautological. Why is limiting creativity in works and areas "the issue"? What concrete problem is happening because Mickey Mouse was under copyright until recently?
- GuinansEyebrows 11mo agoof all websites, hacker news dot com is not ready to discuss the abolition of the profit motive from society.
- nancyminusone 11mo agoWhy should the author have rights to my Harry Potter fan fiction idea? They only came up with the characters but somehow control the whole thing?
- snohobro 11mo agoMy issue isn’t so much derivative works, but the original content being sat upon by the owner and refusing to make it available to the public (for free or for sale) in any meaningful way. Keeping with the theme of Disney, I always enjoyed the Captain Eo attraction. I’d love to be able to regularly rewatch that short film. Other than a bootleg YouTube version, there is no way for me to access it right now, and there is a very real risk that Disney copyright strikes that. I just have to hope that someday Disney makes a high quality version available to me or adds it back into the park. If it were copyright free though, I might have a chance at seeing it. Now just because it’s copyright free doesn’t mean it magically appears in front of me, but it does open the door to anyone who has a high quality version squirreled away somewhere to make it available to me for sale or for free, and TWDC would be unable to stop that from happening.
- dhosek 11mo agoThe article has a link to https://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/08/do-bad-things-happen-when-works-enter-the-public-domain/ https://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/08/do-bad-things-happen-when-w... (Do Bad things happen when works enter the public domain?) There are answer is no, but they’re ignoring the fact that when works enter the public domain they will invariably spawn horror movies “based” on the work. Pooh: Blood and Honey is the warning sign we all ignored to our detriment and now we’ll all have to watch the slasher version of T. S. Eliot’s “Ash Wednesday” in 2026. I hope you’re happy.
- RaSoJo 11mo agoWow. The first Nancy Drew came out the same year as the first Miss Marple. I always thought of Nancy Drew as a much later phenomenon.
- newer_vienna 11mo agoTotal Copyright Death. I am unconvinced that we need copyright at all, if there are strong antifraud laws that prevent people or corps from saying "I am the originator" when not the case. Copyright stifles distribution, derivative work, and longevity
- zzo38computer 11mo agoI agree (and we should not need patents either), but I think it might be better to prevent you from saying that someone else wrote something if they did not write it, or to say someone else wrote it if you modified it unless you also mention that it has been modified from the original version.
- NoSalt 11mo agoI wonder if there is a less annoying list I can read.
- lenerdenator 11mo agoRidiculous that stuff from 1930 is what's coming out in the US. Just make it 50-ish years, absolute max. On a side note, that web page's presentation of the items is leaving much to be desired. I can't click on each individual item out-of-order on Safari. EDIT: Oh, it's a countdown/Advent calendar. I mean I admire the creativity but I don't care enough to visit the page each day. Just give me the list.
- retrac 11mo agoHere in Canada, nothing. Thanks to the retroactive copyright extension which increased the copyright period to 70 years, nothing will enter the public domain in Canada until 2042.
- emptybits 11mo agoThere wasn't easy hover text or other way to reveal what's coming "this month" on their advent calendar. So spoilers for the impatient: 1 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying 2 Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons 3 Albert Einstein 4 Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse 5 Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter 6 Wallace Stevens 7 Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund 8 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) 9 Barbara Hepworth 10 Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies 11 Geoffrey Dennis – The End of the World 12 Charlie Parker 13 Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace 14 Hellbound Train 15 Hannah Arendt 16 Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities 17 T. S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday 18 Thomas Mann 19 Agatha Christie – The Murder at the Vicarage 20 Franz Kafka – The Castle (English translation) 21 Walker Evans 22 Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents 23 Stella Benson – The Far-Away Bride 24 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 25 E. H. Young – Miss Mole 26 P. G. Wodehouse 27 Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense 28 Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon 29 Roger Mais 30 Saadat Hasan Manto 31 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability
- tsoukase 11mo agoEntering PD at death+70y usually means a 100+-20y duration. Does anyone respect this silly timescale? Does any fine been imposed for a forgotten old work? Compare that with a drug's IP: total of 20 years after the molecule patent, of which 8-10y in clinical trials and only 10-12y in profitable life. But everyone respects that until the last day and it brings billions back. A short IP time would favor the small/poor creators that could earn something during their lifetime when the work is fresh, while a long one favors companies like Disney which can protect the copyright with their group of lawyers.
- craniac 11mo agoMark Twain was one of the first writers to push for longer copyright, so his daughters could receive royalties.
- timonofathens 11mo ago[dead]